Er, which part of their stack is "obscure"? Common Lisp, FFI, Cairo, OpenGL, X11; it would be hard to pick more well-trodden ground IMHO. (Well, okay, there are even more popular options than clisp, but it's still not obscure, just slightly less widely used than ex. C or Java.)
These days, for new software, even OpenGL is obscure. And it stands out as odd--Vulkan is essentially the Khronos-approved successor to OpenGL, which is/was an API so thoroughly removed from the modern GPU model that any program using it would be CPU or system memory bound on modern hardware.